Count files in directory and place count into Variable

[nicatt]

I have the following code:

ls *.bat | wc -l

What this does is to count the number of files in the home directory that have the 'bat' extension. I want to run an IF statement off the result. I want to place the results (in this case 5) into the variable but can't quite accomplish it. I can pipe or redirect it to a file and read the file but that seems a bit much.

I want to essentially accomplish the following:

countvariable="ls *.bat | wc -l"

if
$countvariable -ge 2
then
do stuff
else
do other stuff
elif

Ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[nithink]

#!/bin/sh

variable=`ls *.bat | wc -l`

echo $variable

after this you can do your 'IF' condition..

 

[vgersh99]

if [ "`ls -1 *.bat | wc -l`" -ge 2 ] ; then
do stuff
else
do other stuff
fi; vlad
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[nicatt]

Thank you!